Well, I kinda like making cards. I get to use up some of my scraps and it is creative! Plus I get to use and learn about stamps which I have always wanted to use but forced myself not to get into them as I had spent so much money one scrapbooking supplies. But I don't think I can hold myself back anymore. Plus, now I have seen these Copic markers and what you can do with them so I am wanting to try and learn how to use them better.
I have had this stamp for years!!! When I got the Copic markers on Friday night I took them to Chucke Cheese (I had already made plans to meet a friend there) and played with them a little. I bought 6 pens and had to improvise on making green (it wasn't a color that I bought) but I don't think I did to bad. I am dying to learn more and practice shading. Here is the other card that I did, I wasn't able to use the Copics on this one but I do like the way it came out.
I have to say that the school nurses that I have come in contact with at my girls schools are irritating! I sometimes wonder if they are school nurses because they can't cut it in a hospital. My experience with them has not been a good one. Let me explain.
I can not tell you how many times I have gotten a call from the nurse from either school asking me to come and get one of the girls because they have a temperature of 99.1, now I know I don't have the initial of R.N. after my name but even I know that isn't really considered a fever. But whatever I will go and pick them up, but what really burns me up is when you call me to pick up my child because they are sick but when I get there, 10 min. later, you have already sent them back to class. Now to me they can't be that sick if you are sending them back to class so they can infect all the other kids. Are you feelin' what I'm sayin' here????
Now this same nurse that sent my child back to class, stayed on the phone for 10 min talking to another mother about different churches that they have been to. Now I don't care that she is talking about church, but what I do care about is that it is pouring down rain outside and I have parked where the basses pick the kids up and I am afraid that they will be there before I can get out. After she concludes here personal phone call she proceeds to tell me, if front of two other students that the teachers have voiced some concern over my daughter's hygiene. Now I am just furious! My kid comes to the nurses office and we leave.
About a month later I have a meeting with some of her teachers to talk about how we can best help my child and they bring this same conversation up. I thanked them for reminding me and I told them of the exchange between the nurse and myself. They agreed that she should not have said something in front of other students.
A couple of weeks later I get a call from the school nurse telling me that my daughter has come to school in clothes that are too small for her and she asked if I could bring her a change of clothing. I told her that I could not do that right then and that it would take me a while and asked if there was anything there that she could wear in the mean time. She said yes, but continued to go on and on about the small clothing that she had on. Now mind you, I was embarrassed to begin with. I had caught my daughter a couple of times wearing small clothing and I hadn't yet gone through her drawers. But I was in the middle of my work day and we were seeing a ton of patients and the doctor that I work for is walking around me and I am sure he is going to start yelling at me about being on the phone. So I cut her off and asked her once again if there was something there that she could wear and she said yes. That was on a Thursday. On Friday I pull up in front of the house looking forward to having the next week off and there was a van parked in front of my house. Two women get out of the van and I knew right then where these women were from, DYFUS (Division of Youth and Family Services).
They asked to come in and told me that "someone" had called them with some concerns about the girls. They went on to say that there was some concern as to how they were dressed. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who it was. I had to sign a release for them to contact the girls doctors and dentist. I soooo wanted to give that school nurse a piece of my mind.
Then today I get a call from the nurse saying Faith has a rash with pustules. Now I know for a fact that Faith doesn't have a rash, she was out in the woods by a lake and what she has are insect bites. The nurse makes me come and pick her up. After I pick Faith up I call the school nurse and tell her that Faith doesn't have a rash and I go on to explain to her how I am somewhat annoyed that I get called for things that turn out to be nothing. I have gotten called for what the nurse tells me is ringworm and when I go to the doctor it is eczema. Not only does it take time from work, but it is 20 bucks a shot every time, not to mention taking the time of the doctor for something that is nothing. But I make an appointment at 4:30 pm. In the mean time the school is trying to call me to tell me to come pick up her bike. They don't want it left there over night, but I don't want to talk to them. Anyway I take her to the doctor and guess what she has????
That's right, insect bites!
I made sure that I got a note, but I so badly want to put "I told you so" on the note and then attach a bill for $20! That is when I decided I would never be a school nurse!
Jasmine has a great personality and she is one of the most beautiful people I know. However, I am jealous of her and her mother living so close to my mom and dad and not appreciating that fact. For whatever reason, my sister seems to not want a relationship with my mother and father but it has been them who have helped her so much along the way. I was told that she didn't even want to spend Mother's Day with my mom! That burns me up!!! As I get older, so do my parents and the reality of their mortality hits me more and more and I can't understand why my family in Texas doesn't want to spend more time with their loved ones. I believe there will be many regrets for them.
I know that we, as human beings tend to take for granted those things that are with us all the time, but I feel like I have a different perspective on family then most. I long for that sense of family here and I look for it in those that are in my church, but I have yet to find it. That alone saddens me. I was brought up in the church and the church that I attend now talks of wanting to live out the Acts 2 church, but we don't. Many people here have been born here or grown up here and have family so their need is not as great as mine and it is hard to find people that both Craig and I can be close too. So I keep searching with the hope that one day, I will be close to my family not only in heart but in miles as well.
Yahooo! I took my last test yesterday and celebrated by going out with Dave and Jackie (she is in my class and a good friend) to Chili's and then to see Made of Honor which was a nice romantic comedy. I haven't been to the movies in a while so it was nice to just get away. During dinner Jackie got a text from another girl in our class with our grades on the test. Now I thought I did pretty well or failed miserably and Jackie thought she did horribly. Well I got a 78 and Jackie got a 74, not the grade I was hoping for but I FINALLY got a higher grade then she did. LOL!!! So Anatomy and Physiology is done!!! Yippee-Ki-Ayyy. Next Microbiology, we will see how that goes. I think I will approach this class differently. (I say that every class and then do the same thing), I need to pre-read the chapter and re-write my notes as soon as I get home. Not worry so much about flash cards but read over my notes every night. I am going to have to do something like that because the teacher I am taking gives a quiz every class. UGHHHH! But never mind that for now, because ...
I AM DONE WITH SCHOOL UNTIL THE FALL
I have to go and get ready, we are going up North to take his mom and sister out for mother's day and birthday. Love not having to cook!!!
This one I took today, I have been trying to get a picture of the frog for I don't know how long. Usually they move before I can get the camera, but I think he was nervous and didn't want to draw attention to himself because Lucy was there.
We were in Ocean Grove the other day helping a friend with the music at a retreat for the cadets at Fort Monmouth when I snapped this one! It didn't come out as nice as I would have liked, but the trees were in bloom and the sun was setting so beautifully!
